And, given how few outfield options there are out there, I’d be in the same boat. Let Josh Hamilton set the market and then take your pick of teams who need offense. Because folks, there is not a lot of offense out there right now.

My guess is that he ends up in Boston, but really, New York, Cleveland, Seattle and maybe even Texas are possibilities.

Ah yes, because while the Yanks are scraping the bottom of the barrel for a capable RF, the one person they couldn’t use is a guy who has put up over the last four years:

.268/.367/.483 for a 124 OPS+ playing decent defense while playing 150 games a year (34 doubles, 26 HR, 82 BB, 82 RBI and 83 Runs are his other averages btw).

No, the Yanks definitely couldn’t use that…

cur68 - Dec 13, 2012 at 1:28 PM

COPO! Stop it with this stuff. Let Swisher go to the NL. Why? ‘Cause anyone else available right now (not named Josh Hamilton) makes The Empire worse. This is good. Very good. You did this with Ichiro, too. I find this logic and stats thing you do very discouraging from a Beaver Land perspective. You need to get with The Narrative. Swisher Isn’t Vey Good. He Does Not look Good In The Uniform. He Isn’t A Team Guy. He’s Not Enough Like Frenchy . . . or whatever the screwball logic is that people use to evaluate players besides look at their actual production and stats.

churchoftheperpetuallyoutraged - Dec 13, 2012 at 1:34 PM

There’s about zero chance the yanks resign him, with the austerity plan and fans irrational look at his playoff performance as we see above

He is what he is – a solid regular. Its not like he’s coming off of some MVP-type season and teams are paying for the hope that he’ll keep producing at those levels. He’s just fortunate that the market is thin and he’ll be paid like an All Star because of it.

In a better world, that ‘?’ is a ‘:’ and in said better world, this is also the smartest sentence of the offseason….God, how soon until P&C’s report. I need reports on and middle relievers’ velocity and BSOHL reports on backup catchers.

Swisher is waiting for a loooong term contract. He could have signed for 3, 4, or even 5 years, but he’s looking for that rest-of-his-career commitment. The problem is, unless you are a superstar, GMs these days are as commitment-phobic as a 22 year old guy fresh out of college.